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Lot 464A
Six 19th century Grodnertal style dolls with painted composite faces and wooden limbs, (top row left to right - 28.5cm high, 31cm high and 29.5cm high and bottom row left to right 18.5cm high, 14.5cm high and 11cm high), and a quantity of dolls house furniture comprised of a mahogany circular pedestal dining table, 22.8cm diameter and 23cm high, and six chairs, 14cm high, a settee, 27cm across and a hot water urn 11.5cm high (some damage)Provenance: The dolls have descended through the vendor's husband's family. His grandfather Augustus De Morgan Hensley (1835-1924) was nephew to Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871) the mathematician, and cousin to William De Morgan (1839 - 1917) the potter. CONDITION REPORT: The dolls and furniture have been housed for many years in a Dickins and Jones of London box in an attic with a label listing the contents dated March 7. 49. The box contains evidence of mice. Dolls: The smallest doll - Left arm missing from the elbow. Skirt damaged to one side. Glue residue to head but no hair. General wear to head. 11cm high. Smallest of blue dressed dolls - Left arm missing at the elbow. Legs with old repairs using wire, cotton and glue. Head with hair and general wear. 14.5cm high. Larger of the blue dressed dolls - All limbs present. General wear. Head with hair. 18.5cm high. Doll with brown dress - Dress damaged in several places. Head with plaited hair. All limbs present. Legs dressed with stockings. Paint cracked and flaking in places on the head. Small wire hook below left ear. With bonnet with pink ribbons. 29.5cm high Doll with patterned dress - Dress skirt damaged. Cotton apron has completely come away. No hair. Paint to face cracked. Bottom of right leg has been re-attached facing the wrong way! 28.5cm high. Male doll - Suit fabric marked to the front. Upper section of legs not present within trousers. General wear. Traces of hair present. 31cm high. Furniture: Repairs to all chairs. Three chairs with loose legs. Table with one bun foot loose. Sofa with right hand bumper cushion loose and minor losses to the turned legs. Hot water urn with repairs, bent legs and flaked paint.
Lot 166
A Queen Anne style walnut chair back settee, early 20th century, the shaped top rail above double vase form splat back, each with textured capital bearing shell carving, three finely carved claw and ball front supports each with a shell carving to upper sections, beneath a front rail with carved centralised shell with reticulated shell form carvings to either side, 50in. (127cm.) long, 39in. (99cm.) high.
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